Glorious mud
...A simple recipe of water, silt, soil and clay
Nature's potion; so powerful, so useful, so dangerous
Uncontrollable and untethered is this egalitarian mixture
Loved and loathed by human and animal
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Categories:
flocked, environment, fate, life, natural
Form: Free verse
Gboko Gives Chase
...In Gboko, where the dust motes dance and play,
A town, a city, a people, some would say.
What defines its spirit, a riddle, a quest,
With a gait too familiar, putting all to the test.
"Gboko!" ...
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Categories:
flocked, africa, culture, funny, happiness,
Form: Narrative
Knox News
...they had heard the owl was wise
his intelligence was mediocre at best
his ideas were not even his own
He got them from Knox News
If Knox recommended meal worms
Owl ate meal worms
If Knox said...
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Categories:
flocked, satire,
Form: Free verse
Keeping Of The Times
...Packing up the car to the brim
Off we flew up the motorway to Kildare
Drove into the small tidy town of ballymore
To meet with the finest of grandparents
Who lived there
A very peaceful pl...
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Categories:
flocked, absence, anniversary, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
So Many Seduced by Rhythmic Pendulum of Trauma and Absurd Normalcy
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Intelligent musical talent begins with this, to relearn the timing within our soul,
But other tactical psychological methods are busy swaying to and fro,
To an obvious yet nefarious covert Rhythm...
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Categories:
flocked, humanity,
Form: Ballad
Under the Weather
...Dr. Foster lived in old fashioned London, and was content to stay there;
As red roses are content being caressed, by the wind from everywhere.
Dr. Foster loved his daily routine, like the...
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Categories:
flocked, beauty, fantasy, home, london,
Form: Couplet
Seven Days 'Til A Place for the Son
...Everyone's heard the story
Of how the world began
How God created all in seven days
On the seventh day He took a restful stand
And God said "let there be light"
On day 1 God said "let the darkne...
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Categories:
flocked, absence, appreciation, beautiful, care,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Soul
...Beautiful Soul
His voice, his face, his body, his attitude
All expressions of great beauty
Loved by many, adored by many, hated by many
Few really knew his inner beauty they just seen his looks...
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Categories:
flocked, beautiful, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
little flower
...I once was a pretty flower
Untainted by the wind
People flocked to see me
As I bloomed in the spring
But now as the spring fades
I can feel it washing away
My beauty and excellence
My secur...
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Categories:
flocked, 8th grade, age, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
The Barren Island
...He bought the barren island for $13,000
Together with a friend, they planted 16,000 trees
For 40 years, the island turn into a sanctuary
Of insects, flowers, birds and tortoises which became
Famo...
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Categories:
flocked, love, nature, people, places,
Form: Narrative
A Sacred Lake
...“The sacred lake also called Ganga Talao represents the mighty Ganges river of India.” Mauritiusinsideout.com>grand-bassin-mauritius
A Sacred Lake
In the mids...
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Categories:
flocked, imagination, nature, spiritual,
Form: Imagism
As in the days of Noah
...God the Father is not mocked
Jesus the Son is not mocked
The transgender have flocked to the last supper
Blasphemy from the enemy
The Blood of Jesus is the remedy
Yet the sign of Noah is clear...
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Categories:
flocked, education,
Form: Free verse
Evil Has a Childhood
...toss anger, he said
into the bin of waste
waste not mankind’s love
with abuse and bite
the bullet skies
high the eagle flies
why not the steeple
less with feathers flocked
why not the pews on...
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Categories:
flocked, anger, hate,
Form: Free verse
Flocked In
...They don’t ever prepare you for when life gets tough to bare
It’s something a lot of times one must learn themselves
With the pain and loss that I carry, I must not let it weigh these wings down
T...
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Categories:
flocked, adventure, bird, confidence, family,
Form: Free verse
8 years apart
...You were believed.
8 years apart, just for a start.
I got a belt but you were our mothers heart.
You left a taste oh so sweet and me just oh so tart.
The black sheep, forever marked.
For y...
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Categories:
flocked, recovery from, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
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